Archival Descriptions

• Committee for Refugee Assistance in Paris
• PVU
• NAD 658
• Comité d’Assistance aux Refugiés

• Národní archiv
• 658
• Czech, English
• 1936-1942
• The fonds consists of 47,84 linear meters of processed and inventoried documents. All material is accessible.
• Updated 5 months ago

The fonds Pomocný výbor pro uprchlíky, Paříž contains mainly of the correspondence of refugees, mainly from Germany, Austria, Czechoslovakia and Poland, with the Comité d’Assistance aux Refugiés. The correspondence is sorted by surnames of the refugees. Czechoslovak refugees are organized separately. Box 322 contains correspondence of the Comité d’Assistance aux Refugiés with the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee and the other refugee organisations like the Schutzverband deutscher Schriftsteller.

• Ministry of Finance - London
• MF-L

• Národní archiv
• 819
• Czech, English
• 1940-1945
• 24,85 linear metres from which are 16,5 linear metre processed and inventoried and 8,8 linear metres are unprocessed. The fonds is partially accessible.
• Updated 5 months ago

The fonds consists of documents of Ministry of Finance activities - documents for preparing and compilation of the state budget, documents for payments of Czechoslovak military and civil authorities. There can be found documents from other financial matters such as checks, accounts, financial confirmations, contracts or travel expenses. Documents that refer to jewish issue can be found in several boxes. The most important one might be the box n. 131, there are registers of Czechoslovak Jews (and other citizens) deported in to the Terezín ghetto and later in to the concentration camps in occ...

• Ministry of Economic Recovery - London
• MHO - L

• Národní archiv
• 786
• Czech, English
• 1941-1945
• 8,5 linear metres of documents from which all are processed and inventoried. The fonds is accessible.
• Updated 5 months ago

In the fonds, there are files from government meetings about post-war economic plans and works - such as ledgers, data used for preparations of the state budget, correspondence between departments, various economic reports for the Minister or memos. There are also documents related to post-war reconstruction plans (United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration, UNRRA) such as documents of activities of each commissions (planning commission, industrial commission, medical commission...) and furthermore various statistics, files or newspapers. The Jewish-related documents are not we...

• Ministry of Labour and Social Welfare - repatriation, Prague
• Ministerium für Arbeit und soziale Wohlfahrt - Repatriierung, Prag
• MPSP-R

• Národní archiv
• 1146
• Czech, English
• 1938-1951
• 441,62 linear metres from which 441,5 linear metres of documents are processed and inventoried and 0,12 linear metres are unprocessed. The fonds is partially accessible.
• Updated 3 months ago

The fonds contains important documents about refugees, immigration and emigration issues and about the repatriation and reemigration between 1938 and 1950/1. There are documents from each section of the Institute for the Care of Refugees (1938) (socio-medical, evacuation and financial section) i and also from the Institute for the Care of relocated people (functioning from 1940) in the fonds. The most valuable documents are deposited in boxes 16-895, there is an administrative agenda of emigration - applications for the emigration, further more applications for transports. There are card fi...

• Czech League against Bolshevism
• ČLB
• ČLpB

• Národní archiv
• 739
• Czech, English
• 1944-1945
• The collection consists out of 0,5 linear meters of processed and inventoried documents.
• Updated 2 months ago

The official reason for the founding of the Czech League against Bolshevism (Česká liga proti bolševismu) was the Czechoslovak-Soviet treaty of alliance in December 1943 signed by Edvard Beneš in Moscow. The Founding General Meeting of the Czech League against Bolshevism (Česká liga proti bolševismu) was held 23rd January 1944 in Prague. The organization reported directly to the Ministry of Education and Propaganda, led by Emanuel Moravec. Since its founding until January 1945 the Liga organized 231 public speeches and lectures. The Propaganda of the Czech League against Bolshevism was not ...

• Presidium of the Ministerial Council, Prague / NAD 1082

• Národní archiv
• 1082
• Czech, English
• 1918-1945
• Textual material 632,90 linear meters
• Updated 2 months ago

The fonds includes the entire agenda of the Presidium of the Ministerial Council. Several relatively coherent units directly concern Jews, their organizations, religious societies, relevant government regulations (with an overlap after 1939 - legal status in the Protectorate, Jewish property, emigration, Jews in the civil service); reports on the activities of Jewish parties and organizations, the memorandum of the Zionist Revision Union, the affairs of companies of Jewish entrepreneurs (strike at the company of M. Beer in Svitávka, national situation at the company of A. Hahn in Bohumín). ...

• Ministry of Economy and Labour, Prague / MHP

• Národní archiv
• 782
• Czech, English
• 1942-1945
• 109 linear meters of documents, all are processed and inventoried.
• Updated 2 months ago

The Ministry of Economy and Labour (Ministerstvo hospodářství a práce) was a result of the Heydrich´s reform of the Protectorate administration in 1942. In this period falls the total change of the Protectorate into a war economy. As the Aryazation of Jewish property was untill 1942 almost finished and the deportation of Bohemian and Moravian Jews to Ghetto Theresienstadt (Terezín) and other Ghettos and camps in the east started in 1941 most Holocaust relevant material in this collection is connected to the status of "mixed" Jews or Jews who were married to a non Jewish partner.

• Headquarters of Chambers of Commerce and Trade, Prague / NAD 374

• Národní archiv
• 374
• Czech, English
• 1922-1948
• Textual material 186,10 linear meters
• Updated 2 months ago

The fonds includes materials on the organization, development and personnel matters of the Headquarters, minutes from meetings, documents on its legislative work; materials on the economic development in the Czechoslovak Republic and abroad, tax and customs policies, trade fairs and congresses, pricing policy, combating usury, etc.; numerous documents on foreign trade, international trade agreements, reports of Czechoslovak embassies for the Headquarters (situation on local markets, characteristics of individual companies in individual countries). Information on Jews can be specifically fou...

• Ministry of Social Welfare, Prague
• MSP

• Národní archiv
• 1028
• Czech, English
• 1918-1951
• 631,5 linear meters from which 566 linear meters of documents are processed and inventoried and 65,5 linear meters are unprocessed.
• Updated 2 months ago

The Ministry of Social Welfare was during the years of the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia in charge of supporting the Jewish emigration abroad. The Ministry developed guidelines for the employment of Jews in the civil service, their legal status, control of Jewish names, Aryan certificates, Employment Law for Jews, Pension payments to Jews,

• Provincial Office in Prague / NAD 753/1

• Národní archiv
• 753/1
• Czech, English
• 1921-1945
• Textual material 363,9 linear meters
• Updated 2 months ago

The fonds is mainly of an administrative nature. The Presidium of the Provincial Office (hereinafter PPO) monitored the economic, financial and personnel agenda of district authorities and district commissions, and provincial institutions. The personnel agenda is located in all departments of the PPO registry. The PPO-RAV files (the Reich administration) mainly concern German citizenship, name changes, requests for exemptions from the Nuremberg Laws, etc. The individual files also contain orders on the status of Jews in public life, salary suspension of Jewish employees and additional entri...

• Ministry of Interior I - old registry, Prague / NAD 1075/2

• Národní archiv
• 1075/2
• Czech, English
• 1918-1944
• Textual material 965,15 linear meters
• Updated 2 months ago

The fonds as a whole provides information on the activities of the state authorities during the first Czechoslovak Republic and the so-called autonomous administration at the beginning of the Nazi occupation. For researchers, the most valuable part is the legislative issues, issues of organization of political administration, federal affairs, elections, and national and autonomous affairs. The fonds also stores valuable material on economic history. Jews are explicitly mentioned in the following documents: reports on the activities of national committees and the memorandum of the Jewish Nat...

• Amt des Reichsprotektors in Böhmen und Mähren, Prag
• Office of the Reichsprotector in Bohemia and Moravia, Prague
• ÚŘP

• Národní archiv
• 1005
• Czech, English
• 1939-1945
• 255, 12 linear metres of documents are processed and inventoried and accessible and 50, 52 linear metres are unprocessed and not accessible
• Updated 3 months ago

In the fonds, there are many jewish related documents and for studying the theme of protectorate Jews it is a fundamental fonds. There are documents related generally to the status of Jews in the Protectorate, their legal status in the freelance work or in the state administrative. Valuable documents are related to the Aryanization/Arisierung of the jewish property (jewish companies, trades, traffics, agricultural and forestry companies, timber companies) and its later redistribution, various lists of aryanizated property and lists of posted Treuhänders. There are also documents about the N...

• Provincial Office in Prague
• Landesbehörde in Prag
• ZÚ

• Národní archiv
• 753
• Czech
• 1918-1953
• celkem: 2989,72 bm, zpracováno: 2714,4 bm, nezpracováno: 275,32 bm
• Updated 2 months ago

• Ministry of Interior I., Prague
• NAD 1075

• Národní archiv
• 1075
• Czech, English
• 1918-1948
• The fonds consists out of 2147 linear meters of processed and inventoried documents. 214 linear meters are unprocessed and inaccessible.
• Updated 2 months ago

Documents of this fonds illustrate the broad scope of the agenda of the Ministry of Interior. It included, apart from the security and administrative matters, also minority and language issues, citizenship, population register, press and censorship issues, and also the agenda of the then non-existing Ministry of Social Welfare. The most valuable documents can be found mainly in the presidial part the fonds, where the events of the period can be studied from the situation reports of district and provincial authorities. Documents relating to the history of the Holocaust can mainly be found in...

• Ministry of Justice, Prague
• MS

• Národní archiv
• 832
• Czech, English
• 1918-1953
• 299,5 linear metres of documents from which 299,5 linear metres are processed and inventoried and 8,5 linear metres are unprocessed. The fonds is partially accessible.
• Updated 2 months ago

In the fonds, there are documents and records from the legislative council, public prosecutors and judicial administration department. There are also files containing reports from the criminal department and the prison department. The jewish related documents are in several boxes concerning more the matter of antisemitism in the Czechoslovak republic in the thirties than the matter of holocaust. In the boxes there can be found complaints on Jewish notaries and layers and also their requests for granting permission to work in law practice. There are also lists (dated between years 1919-1945)...

• Ministry of Social Welfare - London
• MSP - L
• NAD 1007

• Národní archiv
• 1007
• Czech, English
• 1940-1945
• 15,8 linear metres of documents from which 15,5 linear metres are processed and inventoried and 0,3 linear metres unprocessed. The fonds is partially accessible.
• Updated 1 month ago

The fonds includes various administrative correspondence (this correspondence refers to requests for social supports or finding a job opportunity), questionnaires of repatriates, circulars, information booklets, studies, reports and records of the Czechoslovak National Council and its committees. Jewish related documents can be found in various boxes, such as in boxes 58 and 59, there are files of Jewish associations, clubs and Jewish committees including the Federation of Czechoslovak Jews, The Union of Orthodox Jews from Czechoslovakia or Central Board of Jews. There are also documents fr...

• Ministry of Interior - London
• MV - L

• Národní archiv
• 828
• Czech, English
• 1940-1945
• 53,25 linear metres from which 53,25 linear metres of documents are processed and inventoried and 0,0 linear metres are unprocessed. The fonds is partially accessible.
• Updated 1 month ago

The fonds consists of documents of the Ministry of Interior and its departments. The state-security department kept records of all Czechoslovak citizens living in the Great Britain during the WWII and provided passports and visas and also their extension or verifications. The administrative and juristic department edited standpoints of the Ministry to the bills. The educational department took care about all matters of the Czechoslovak schools in Great Britain and also in foreign countries. The Ministry of Interior also cooperated with Czechoslovak intelligence service in the matters of sec...

• Foreign Press Archive, New York / NAD 1066

• Národní archiv
• 1066
• English
• 1939-1946
• Textual material 588,62 linear meters
• Updated 4 weeks ago

The Clippings Archive of the Second Resistance, known since 1942 as the Czechoslovak Archives in New York, was part of the Czechoslovak Information Center in New York and is associated with the name of its founder, Arne Laurin. Thanks to him, a unique archive of clippings was created, gathering clippings mainly on foreign political and military events during the Second World War, on the situation in the Protectorate and also on the Second Czechoslovak Foreign Resistance. The fonds also contains newspaper clippings on the Jewish community in Czechoslovakia and anti-Jewish measures in the lat...

• National Aryan Cultural Union, Prague
• Nationalarische Union, Prag
• NAKJ
• NAD 677

• Národní archiv
• 677
• Czech, English
• 1939-1945
• The collection consists out of 1.25 linear meters of processed and inventoried documents which are all accessible.
• Updated 4 weeks ago

The National Aryan Cultural Union (Národní arijská kulturní jednota, NAKJ) was founded on 24th May 1939, officially as a non political society "to improve the situation of the national culture, spirit and peoples behaviour according to modern aryan principles". The association opened 20 branches in the Protectorate Bohemia and Moravia. Together with the fascist movements "Vlajka" (The Flag), "Národní tábor fašistická" (National Fascist Union) and "Fašistická garda" (Fascist guard) they unified in October 1939 to "Český národně socialistický tábor, ČNST" (Czech Nationalsocialist Union). In t...

• GVČ
• Generalkommandant der Gendarmerie, Prag
• NAD 1009
• General Commander of the Gendarmerie

• Národní archiv
• 1009
• Czech, English
• 1918-1942
• The collection consists out of 25 linear meters of processed and inventoried documents. 1.9 linear meters are unprocessed and inaccessible.
• Updated 4 weeks ago

The Gendarmerie in the pre-war Czechoslovak Republic was a militarily organized security force, according to the applicable legal requirements and according to the relevant state authorities to maintain public order and security throughout the territory of Czechoslovakia. It was also responsible for the border control and sent illegal emigrants from Nazi-Germany, under them also Jews, back to Germany. After the establishment of the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia, the Gendarmerie became part of the occupation administration. Gendarmes were given functions such as auxiliary police, accom...